irclogger is a simple "bot", a program connecting as a client on IRC servers to provide a web log of what is said. It aims to provide a simple, fast, efficient and web-compliant service. It is quite robust and mature, having be in daily heavy use for personal & business use since 2003. This page is at https://colas.nahaboo.net/Code/IrcLogger.
Note in 2026: This code is quite old, and although I still use it (on private IRC servers), I am a bit ashamed of its bash coding style, and the python part needs python v2.7 which is really obsolete. I would recommend using other IRC loggers, especially for public IRC sites. Note that I have currently recoded the IRC bot in Go, and may even rewrite the web display bash code for fun in the future to create an irclogger2.
- Be used on intranets, where users can be trusted and will not try constantly to crack the system. Thus the bot do not need to provide the plethora of anti-hackers, channel defending measures
- Provide privacy, users can set passwords on the log files, change them, but cannot remove them
- Be another web tool, the bot obeys just the minimal IRC commands to log or not a channel. All the rest is done via a web browser. Each logged phrase becomes a part of the web with its own URL.
- its web page: https://colas.nahaboo.net/Code/IrcLogger
- its technical documentation in the README.txt file, with the Installation instructions
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